The Supernumerary on the Island of an The Thinking Part at the Theater
A Rutledge Vermont buyer Mr Wallace B Tinkham attends a New York theater and becomes the focus of a comic misadventure as a collar button proves stubborn. Behind him a fashionable couple quarrels over a planned Continental tour while the curtain reveals a larger reflection on character and fate.
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Merary
Wallace B. Tinkham
Mr. Tinkham
Rutledge
Titikhbam
New York
Tinkham
Newark
Alwys
Tinkam
Isle of An
Vienna
Europe
Manx Castle
Millionaire Bradbury Keeps Busy Running His Hotel Elevator
William B. Bradbury of San Francisco runs his own hotel elevator daily and believes in working hard to live. He cites the Raleigh rule that a man who works will succeed and says experience is overrated, noting the hotel once lost money before he took over and now earns a good monthly net.
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Thomas W. Pittman
New York World
God
Colenso
Magersfontein
England
Grahamstown
Piet Relief
Majuba Hill
United States
Joubert
Pretoria
Paardekraal
Kruger
Heaven
Earth
Zion
San Francisco
William B. Bradbury
Capitalists
Walter Raleigh
Ness
San Francisco Examiner
Ile
Butehber
Drum language spreads through Africa in drum telegrams
The article explains how South African natives use drum language like a telegraph to relay news from Boers to British and nearby regions. It recounts stories of rapid messages from Basoko to stations and a misaddressed drum call that drew state servants instead of domestic staff.
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South Africa
Africa
Kongo
Stanley Falls
Peter de Deken
Inspector Five
Basoko
Bula Matori
Mer
Five
Soho London Antique Cop Pers Factory Exposed
A Soho workshop once produced fake antiques to meet demand beside its legitimate stew pans and kettles. Crafts included hammering old incense burners, coating with asphaltum, acid carving to reveal designs, and aging through oxidation. Some pieces were deliberately damaged and repaired to pass as ancient.
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Soho
London
Stage racing illusions how horses appear swift on set
In theatrical racing scenes horses race on treadmills hidden by a picket fence to simulate speed. Sound effects use dried hoofs and wooden imitators or a pin cylinder to mimic hoof beats, with carriage noises added by wheels on sand.
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Cassell
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John Storm
Glory Quayle
Providential
Millionaire Bradbury
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Ohio
C. J. Thompson
Defiance
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C. 8
Mackintosh
Davis
Sears, Roebuck & CO
Chicaco
Ill
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Av
Madicon St
Chicago
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